U.S. Defence Secretary Ashton Carter arrived in Arbil on Thursday for talks with Iraqi Kurdish officials on the war against the ISIL armed group.
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At the start of a meeting with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, mr. Carter said the US wants to help Iraq as it fights against IS in Ramadi and then later in Mosul.
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In the United States, an unnamed official linked to U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s office condemned the attack on Turkish troops, calling on the Iraqi and Turkish governments to de-escalate tensions over the presence of Ankara’s forces in the north of the country.
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The visit to Iraq is part of a trip around the Middle East that began in Turkey on Tuesday and is also aimed at asking US allies for greater contributions in the military campaign against Islamic State. “It’s kind of hard to inflict support on somebody”, he said.
The secretary commended President Masoud Barzani of Iraq’s Kurdistan region on the Kurdish peshmerga troops retaking Sinjar from ISIL control; he said it’s important because it separates the Iraqi-Mosul side of the theater from the Syrian-Raqqah side.
One of the most powerful among them, Ketaeb Hezbollah, said on its TV channel Etejah that it was responsible for shelling the Turkish base near Bashiqa Wednesday. And those assets should only be used when they can make a critical, strategic contribution to the fight.
“While they’re not physically on the battleline with them, they’re all but there with them and that is having a deep impact with the Iraqi soldiers”, he said.
In coordination with USA air power they destroyed 11 incoming ISIS vehicles, foiling three auto bomb attacks and killed several suicide bombers. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, so spoke on condition of anonymity.
At the time of their deployment, the US Air Force in Europe (USAFE) and Air Forces Africa Public Affairs said that the F-15s were deployed “after the overnment of Turkey requested support in securing the sovereignty of Turkish air space”.
Ten thousand members of the Iraqi security forces surround Ramadi, but USA officials have expressed frustration at how long it has taken Iraqi security forces to take back the city.
The US State Department had said earlier that the conflict was a just a “dispute between Turkey and Iraq” over “a small number of troops”.
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That reluctance also could hold up any move to embed US military advisers with Iraqi Brigade headquarters.
